Use it up! Don't throw it in the bin!

Penelope_Penguin

kerik4 wrote: »

I don't know! Apparently it's the citric acid in the coke which works - does lemonade have citric acid in the ingredients?

It's phosphoric acid in coke that removes limescale from loos Citric acid isn't a strong enough acid to do that.

Penny. x

rainbowsprite

Had some carrots here that really needed to be used.

So hey presto have made some carrot buns

Guapa1

I wanted to share this as I'm quite pleased with myself.

My family waste a lot of food and I'm trying to get them to cut down. Times are too hard for that type of nonsense.
Anyway, earlier in the week I came downstairs to see my mum throwing away perfectly good carrots because they look funny. :rolleyes:


So first of all I made some muffins


Some carrot and parsnip soup



Then some Jamaican style carrot juice


After all this, all I had left was this from the juice:


I thought about what I could use it for and then remembered the veggie burger recipes from a thread on here.
I mixed this up with some lentils, mixed seeds, and stuffing.


Et voila!
Pretty good going don't you think?

mumoftwo

That is fantastic, not bad at all for a bunch or carrots that your mum said "looked funny" not so funny looking now, more yummy looking, well done you!

KE7285

Well done Guapa! Now thats impressive! Muffins look fab.

I tried to make parsnip crisps last night with 'dodgy' parsnips and they left a lot to be desired!

Keep up the good work! x :T

pnq06

Wow- VERY impressive :T

I have carrots in the fridge that look a lot funnier

EssexHebridean

Hi Guapa - well done with your "carrot rescue!"

We have a "Don't throw food away challenge" on THIS THREAD which you might find interesting - unfortunately it no longer has its own thread but is now part of the leftovers thread.....

Reverbe

That's very impressive! Well done!

Penelope_Penguin

Guapa1 wrote: »

I wanted to share this as I'm quite pleased with myself.

My family waste a lot of food and I'm trying to get them to cut down. Times are too hard for that type of nonsense.

Well done :T especially on the carrot pulp - I use vegetable pulp sieved out from making soup to add body to pasta sauces

I'll add this to the Less Waste thread that Essex-H refers to, to keep all ideas together

Penny. x

kunekune

I didn't have a great week on the less waste front, as I only worked out that some veg stuff was the source of an odd smell too late to rescue it. I don't think anyone could come up with something edible for a mouldy cucumber, some mouldy courgette and a bag of salad that was kind of yellow liquidy on the inside ... unless they were homicidal, that is. But I had a couple of good moments.

I was making a tomato soup last night using a tin of tomatoes and some bits & pieces, and when there wasn't enough tomato-eyness, I skinned and chopped some real tomatoes that were on the turn. Had the soup with the end of the fromage frais I used for a potato & onion tart earlier in the week.

We had one meal entirely of leftovers - the end of the potato & onion tart, and a manky cauli done with a three cheese sauce', ie, the ends of cheddar, parmesan and stilton. And tonight, I'm doing curry night: the meat curry is last week's takeaway and the veg curry will use up some odds and ends of veg, the last of the parboiled potatoes and, oh joy, reduce my stock of tinned coconut milk from 7 to 6 cans!